Secularly Aesthetic

As a practicing of popular aesthetic culture, the Mainland China pop music with a formidable start in the late 70s, has produced massive music and pop stars in the recent 20 years, and promoted the literary market. With the influence of pop music, the socialistic mainstream music started the commercial running in the 90s, and has been spread abroad by using electronic medium and both of them are in complete harmony. The mass culture has developed rapidly after the 80s, with which its one of pop-music-characteristics, and brought great impact on the aesthetic culture.The paper is started with analyzing the pop music phenomenon in Mainland China, notes the development, reveals the cause and discusses the impact and proposes the thoughts towards all these aspects from the respect of mass culture.To the question of anticipating-and-seizing-the-market, gradually-taking-control and eventually-expanding-abroad in the last 20 years, it is expounded the social and historical background, in which the development of pop music's culture takes place from the following 5 aspects: tremendous consumers, the brisk market economy, the open national policy, the upgrowth mass media and the successively developing technology. The paper concludes that the modern aesthetic culture has been becoming popular, onefold, entertaining and consumed from the point of view of its function, means of production, approach of spread and value.